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Hampshire College Maintains Accreditation, Advances Ambitious Plan for its Future

… will continue its accreditation, according to a vote by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) at its … November 22 and a public announcement November 23 . The ruling validates the College’s new operational and financial plans and marks …

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ECG Grants Announced

… ECG Grants Announced The Ethics & the Common Good (ECG) Project is pleased to announce the awards for the 2018-2019 Common Good Student Project …

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November 1: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by Michelle Alexander

… rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow —will deliver the 15th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on November 1 at 4 p.m. Her talk, "Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," will be held in the Robert Crown …

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Omar S. Dahi

… economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founding director of Security in Context, a research …

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Hampshire College Alum and Filmmaker Alex Rivera Awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

… Fellowship. Rivera was one of 25 Fellows chosen by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their … talent and exceptional creativity.” Colloquially known as the MacArthur "genius" grant, the fellowship includes a stipend of $625,000 for the pursuit …

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Five College Fund Established in Honor of Consortium Pioneer Jackie Pritzen

… has established a fund to honor Jackie Pritzen, one of the consortium's early leaders, who died in August at the age of 83. Pritzen was hired in 1969, four years after … having taught at Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges. Over the next 26 years she worked closely with four executive …

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April 15: Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture

… Culture Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will deliver the seventh annual Schocket Lecture on Tuesday, April 15, at … Main Lecture Hall. Her talk is entitled "Class and the Disciplines." Professor Spivak is a literary theorist and co-founder of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at …

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Soliloquy’s Garden

… Soliloquy’s Garden By Michael Samuels 09F "The art of letting go has never been a talent of mine," … with seven cacti, a pond, flowers, and small animals. The space also includes a pathway, and a bench to encourage visitors to linger. "I want people to consider the lives of the utilitarian objects we use on a daily …

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Hampshire Celebrates Commencement: May 12–15

… Celebrates Commencement: May 12–15 Congratulations to the newest Div-Free members of our community! To celebrate … article on Hampshire's 2021 commencement festivities from the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The bell ringing celebration and virtual commencement …

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Other Worlds Are Possible Event and Community Education Day Focus on Restorative Justice

… College’s second Other Worlds Are Possible event of the spring semester will be held February 24 and will help kick-off the semester’s first Community Education Day on February 25. Community Education Days are part of the College’s new curricular model and are integrated …

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State College Republican Chair

… think all Hampshire College students by definition lean to the left, meet Ricky Tsay 06F, who was elected April 18 as chair of the Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans (MACR). … He ran for MACR chair on a platform that argued that the Republican Party in Massachusetts needs to be renewed and …

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'Shift' - An Animated Film

… College graduate Joshua Marvel, was accepted into the 2005 Plymouth Independent Film Festival. Marvel completed … at Hampshire. In a series of slowly shifting scenes, the five-minute animated film depicts a burned-out husk, with … in a cycle of reclamation. Color values move fluidly from the subtle and minimalist to vibrant and sharp, creating the

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Alumni Panel Event To Focus On Immigration, Anti-Immigrant Policy

… Policy As immigrants and immigration have become the fodder for electoral battles again this season, a … two decades of anti-immigrant policy at an event open to the public on campus this month. The panelists work on the front lines investigating and …

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Salman Hameed: Producing Science for Muslim Societies

… Salman Hameed: Producing Science for Muslim Societies With the bright glow of a green screen behind him, Associate … and Humanities Salman Hameed begins his talk on Pluto and the images of the dwarf planet and its moons taken by the New Horizons …

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Animated Film Takes Owen Neuburger from Div III to Pixar

… was hired at Pixar studios. His experience in creating the animated film  Union  for his Division III capstone … an introductory 3-D animation course. He then continued the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and … III chair, with Professor of Computer Science Lee Spector the other member of the committee. Neuburger’s talent with …

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Hampshire College Receives Largest Single Donation Since Founding

… is announcing a $5,000,000 investment in its Change in the Making campaign by Paula H. and James S. Crown 71F. Mr. … Challenge that aims to raise significant support from the College’s first five entering classes of 1970–1975 in honor of Hampshire’s 50th Anniversary year. Change in the Making: A Campaign for Hampshire has raised $19,456,747 …

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April 5, 2019: Letter from Miriam Nelson

… as an undergraduate, because I understood very quickly the extraordinary role Hampshire plays in transforming the lives of our students. Coming to Hampshire as a student … education is anything but safe. A college that embodies the motto “to know is not enough” demands a deeper …

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Hampshire College Raises Projection for Student Enrollment, Relaunches Admissions

… 4. Preliminary projections for fall enrollment on the Amherst, Mass. campus: 700-750 students representing 42 … Wingenbach has appointed key administrators and is guiding the College in its work advancing other key priorities: delivering a quality education in the most student-driven degree program in the country, …

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Alumni Profile: Maud Daudon 73F’'s "“Triple Bottom Line”"

… Daudon 73F has a resume that's hard to beat. She has been the chief financial officer of the Port of Seattle, the president and CEO of an employee-owned investment bank, …

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Number Theory

… I would do philosophy, and those were good classes. But the math classes surpassed my expectations so much that I … really catches Engberg's attention. Essentially a study of the properties of integers (negative and positive numbers and … yet, that are fascinating and extremely important in the field," he says, noting that even when answers are …

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Raymond Coppinger

… at Boston University. His Ph.D. thesis in biology at the University of Massachusetts is on the effect of experience and novelty on avian feeding behavior. He joined the founding faculty at Hampshire College in 1969. He …

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Hampshire Alum David Shulkin Appointed US Secretary of Veterans Affairs

… John Courtmanche Hampshire alum David Shulkin, one of the most accomplished physicians and medical executives in the nation, was unanimously confirmed across party lines by the Senate in February and is now serving as US Secretary of …

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From Reel to Reel to Reel

… Reel to Reel to Reel Abigail Meisel No one would ever use the word dynastic to describe Hampshire College. But it’s undeniable that the film program has linked one cohort of successful documentarians to the next, providing successive generations of directors, …

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Jamie Citron 01F

… member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama Foundation, Jamie Citron 01F was recently named to the Biden-Harris administration. Jamie Citron 01F serves as deputy assistant to the President and principal deputy director of the White …

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Professor Alan Goodman featured in Discover Magazine and Two Podcasts Focused on Race and Structural Racism

… of Biological Anthropology and former president of the American Anthropological Association Alan Goodman was featured on the Human Biology Association’s podcast SoS . In the episode, titled “How the Outside Gets In,” Goodman and …

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